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Watch The Throne [Jay-Z & Kanye West]

What was your impression on this album?

So far the whole album is total trash, but only favorite songs are
Only songs I like are No Church In The Wild, Gotta Have It, Why I Love You, and The Joy, [N Word]s in Paris, Who Gone Stop Me, Primetime and Murder to Excellence.

The rest of the album is really meh for me, and about Jay-Z;
I'm getting tired of Jay-Z's "they just hating on us, so just screw them all" motif. He's managed to shove it down our throats in like 50 different ways ad nauseam..

Re: Watch The Throne [Jay-Z & Kanye West]

I haven't checked the album out yet, but i haven't listened to a Jay-Z song in a long time. I got bored of Jay after a while, and Kanye got arrogant after a while. I seen the Otis video, and i didn't like it. I'll check the album out, but i'm not sure if there's gonna be a song that i will like on it.

Re: Watch The Throne [Jay-Z & Kanye West]

50: The 1st album (although technically it was his 2nd) was the best and there was no way to beat it. He had the mentality and attitude to pull it off, and mean what he said in his lyrics. After that where would he go? He's made his money and become successful enough to retire. The simple fact is that can't genuinely continue to do gangsta rap if he's no longer a gangsta, anything he did after that was living off the reputation of his past and not his future. It's only a downward spiral after his initial success, but what he does after that is completely up to him.

Em: He's definitely fell off, but he's been going through some serious ups and downs for years. Add the pill addiction with all that and his fall-off seems more understandable than the others. At the time he was making all the wacky crazy grozit for his singles and keeping the darker stuff reserved purely for album, but then again some of the darker stuff was losing it's touch after enough time passed. The only thing I didn't like about his album was the guest appearances, it should've just been him doing his thing, but I guess he needed the popularity points to make the album sell.

Jay: Nas will always be the better rapper and nothing about that will ever change, but Jay has the ability to be more flexible/adaptable to keep a bit of consistency with his rapping. He may talk about money/girls, but it's what he raps about best. Nas needs some serious inspiration and motivation to make a good record, and a lot of times these days it's what he doesn't have.

Wayne: I think Tha Carter 2 was the high point of his growth as a rapper. All of his other albums before were okay and fun to listen to, but mostly because of Mannie Fresh's beats and the other CMM to back him up.

He's become erratic and damn-near high off of his own success. Tha Carter 2 was best work, but the majority of people didn't catch-on until after that album with his mixtapes (which around the time he started making grozit songs).